Awards: Listing of Funded Projects

Every year, NIJ awards grants and cooperative agreements for research, development, evaluation, testing and training and technical assistance projects across the spectrum of criminal justice.

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This page includes all awards funded by the National Institute of Justice since 2003.[1]

Number of Awards: 7,383
Total Amount Awarded: $3,910,663,426

Funded Awards
FY Sort ascending	Title	Original Solicitation	Recipient	State	Award Number	Amount	Status
2023	NIJ Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge Winner: ScienceCast	Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge	ScienceCast		2023-community-perceptions-0008	$5,000	Closed
2023	NIJ Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge Winner: The Eagles	Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge	The Eagles		2023-community-perceptions-0010	$5,000	Closed
2023	NIJ LEADS	NIJ FY23 Support for the Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Scholars Program	NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE	VA	15PNIJ-23-GK-04221-NIJB	$1,000,000	Open
2023	NIJ Multisite Impact and Cost-Efficiency Evaluation of Veterans Treatment Courts		AMERICAN UNIVERSITY	DC	15PNIJ-22-GK-00035-VTCX	$1,500,000	Open
2023	Ontogenetic Study of the Pelvis Through Examination of Interlandmark Distances and Geometric Morphometric Analyses: Implications for Subadult Sex and Age Estimation	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER ED	NV	15PNIJ-23-GG-01940-RESS	$111,000	Open
2023	Operationalizing the Individual versus Group Fairness Dichotomy for Recidivism Risk Assessment: US Legal Challenges and Technical Proposals	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK	MD	15PNIJ-23-GG-01932-RESS	$166,500	Open
2023	Optimizing Analytical Parameters for Detection of Chronic and Single Dose Drug Exposure in Forensic Hair Analysis	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04208-MUMU	$431,892	Open
2023	Optimizing New STRs for Enhanced DNA Mixture Deconvolution	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT FORT WORTH	TX	15PNIJ-23-GG-04214-RESS	$513,529	Open
2023	Pathways to Resilience: Assessing the Impact of Juvenile Justice Reforms in Oklahoma	NIJ FY23 Research on Juvenile Justice Topics	AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-02409-TITL	$1,095,972	Open
2023	Pivoting Headspace Ethanol Analysis to Accommodate Modern Day Scenarios	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories	COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01424-MUMU	$371,593	Open
2023	Police Supervision Redux: Examining Police Supervision in the 21st Century	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives	NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-05488-RESS	$1,000,000	Open
2023	Policing Leadership and Accountability: Harnessing Big Data and Causal Inference for Evaluating Police Reform Practices	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Policing Practices, Accountability Mechanisms, and Alternatives	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH	UT	15PNIJ-23-GG-05487-RESS	$972,083	Open
2023	Positive Adolescent Interpersonal Relationships (PAIR): A Community-Based STRiV Study	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women	NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-01380-REVA	$1,996,357	Open
2023	Pretrial Policy Change and Place: Evaluating the Impacts of Maryland's Bail Reform on Crime and Pretrial Outcomes across Courts	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE	CA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01931-RESS	$55,500	Open
2023	PRISONERS ON THE MOVE: EXAMINING THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF PRISON TRANSIENCY ON INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	CINCINNATI UNIV OF	OH	15PNIJ-23-GG-01936-RESS	$105,000	Open
2023	Procedural Justice in Jails	NIJ FY23 Research and Evaluation on Correctional Culture and Climate	THE CNA CORPORATION	VA	15PNIJ-23-GG-06105-MUMU	$894,789	Open
2023	Quantification of psychotropic cannabinoids in newly emerging hemp-derived products and evaluation of their stability and interconversion during storage	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY	IL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04234-RESS	$251,505	Open
2023	Quantifying the accuracy of low quality DNA sample analysis from genotyping to genealogical searching and integration as a bioinformatic pipeline	NIJ FY 2023 Invited to Apply - Funding to Support the Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes Program	UNIVERSITY OF OREGON	OR	15PNIJ-23-AG-04262-DNAX	$266,406	Open
2023	Quantifying the strength of support in fingerprint casework comparisons	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04227-SLFO	$609,185	Open
2023	Quantitative and visual prediction of eye, hair and skin color from DNA	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY	IN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04206-RESS	$980,527	Open
2023	Quantitative Assessment of Fracture Characteristics in Blunt Force Skeletal Trauma for Forensic Interpretations	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	OH	15PNIJ-23-GG-04219-SLFO	$818,054	Open
2023	Rapid screening and identification of fentanyl in drug mixtures using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY	FL	15PNIJ-23-GG-04230-RESS	$190,662	Open
2023	Recovery and Analysis of Less Volatile Components for the Identification of Ignitable Liquid Residues in Fire Debris - Continuation of current NIJ-funded project (2020-DQ-BX-0003)	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY	TN	15PNIJ-23-GG-04223-RESS	$99,818	Open
2023	Regulating Data Bias in Intelligent Decision Making	NIJ FY23 Graduate Research Fellowship	BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY	MA	15PNIJ-23-GG-01934-RESS	$55,500	Closed
2023	Research and Development of an Approach for Non-invasive Determination of Cannabis Ingestion for Forensic Science Purposes	NIJ FY23 Research and Development in Forensic Science for Criminal Justice Purposes	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	NY	15PNIJ-23-GG-04236-RESS	$291,801	Open